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>been struggling with getting my dude to walk on walls for more than a week

>tried every complex trigonometry shit I could think of to get it to work

>still doesn't

>go ask on the unity forums

>turns out Unity has a built in function that does it already

transform.TransformDirection(Vector)

Kinda want to kill myself

Guess I'm unstuck now though

>>14026310

If it's your first game it's pointless to try and make everything perfect. Just get it working.

>>14026813

draw_sprite_ext( spr_engine_flame, speed - 1, self.x, self.y, 1, 1, player_angle, c_white, 1 );

Make the engine flame sprite 10 wider tot he right and place the pivot point where the center of the player would be when drawing it.

>>14026821

Thanks! Worked perfectly.

>>14026825

I meant I wanted the engine flame to come out the engine, so it drew the flame there, but kept drawing in the same place even when the ship turned, so it was no longer being drawn in the right place. I needed it to draw at the engine, relative to which way the ship is facing.

>>14026962

Christmas till New Years is almost completely reserved for friends and family for me.

>>14026962

I was forced to travel back home to a city that seems filled with people with a stick up their ass so I have fuckall to do for a whole month.

Once I'm done with my dissertation I'll have nothing else to do but dev

>>14026967

You gonna spend every single waking moment with your family?

>>14027051

Christmas with family and time until new years with friends, basically a three-man LAN party in my apartment so I won't really have any free time during that, and the two or three days I'm not with someone are probably spent on resting up and cleaning.

>>14027537

Where the ship's center is, or make the blue part a child of the white part.

>>14027537

To rotate it so it lines up? You need to rotate its position around the center of the ship.

>>14027808

>"learning" things that you don't know if or when you'll need

And you've been blogposting this same shit for weeks now. Are you just after a pity party?

>>14027808

You don't even know the scope of what you do not know now. Stop caring or trying to figure out why you need to know these things. You are too dumb and uneducated to make these distinctions at this time. As you gain skills you will understand more of the "why" answers, not just the how.

Power through it. Or be a pussy and cry about it. No one really cares.

>>14027450

>I have learned to always search the internet for what I want to do before actually trying to see if someone has found a simpler way of doing it.

So did I

Couldn't find anything

>>14028808

>learning math takes 8 years

Literally what?

I've just spend a week and half to go from fucking aritmetic to last weeks of precalculus.

high school math is easy as fuck if you're an adult, literally as easy as basic adition and substraction.

I've never cared about math nor I still think is pretty much useless to learn all that, but I think I would be much worse trying to make a 2D game without understanding of at least trigonometry.

It's like complaining about hardware tools and going to the hardware store when you're trying to make furniture.

>>14028869

>built their engine

Nigger, Panda3D was made by Disney and used for shit like Disneyland rides and Toontown. It's been around for a long time before Signal Ops.

>>14028913

Oh yeah, ogre3d is one of my favourite game engines. Up there with directx and opengl.

>>14027808

>Calculus

Speed, acceleration and velocity

>Inequality

Fuck if I know, kind of a broad and simple concept the could be useful so you can frame your problems in a mathematical way.

>Quadratic function

Any sort of "smoothing" uses a quadratic function or more, I myself was using it as a way of giving some acceleration to the run speed of my character

>Law of sines and cosines

Bread and butter or any sort of rotation your character needs to make. Pay attention to this one.

>Conic sections or parabolas

Haven't come upon this yet, but perhaps they could be used to calculate things like an orbit around a planet.

Most of the stuff you learn in math isn't immediately useful, they are tools for when you have a problem to solve you will remember some obscure thing about math that made what seemed a first look like an herculean effort is now a mere equation you need to implement. If you are studying math I would also advise you to study binary logic.

>>14028012

Damn, I guess this is one of the reasons we should give a light read to the documentation then

>>14028808

Anon please, stop being dumb. It's all about balancing complexity, content and time to make it. 3D only has a higher minimum complexity necessary to make it work. You see a lot of indie 2d shit because it requires the minimum amount of effort necessary to make a shitty game, but you lose a lot of possible depth to the game, a 2d devil may cry clone can work, but it will inherently be inferior to a 3d one because of the lack of third dimension where you can have enemies coming from. Other concepts only really work in 2d, like bullet-hell.

>>14028856

Damn, you must be smart. Do you watch Rick and Morty?

>>14029048

do you really think math that is taugh to preteens and young teenagers is hard?

>>14029096

Hopefully that isn't a 3d version of that furfag RPG where you could rape everything. Also the game I posted uses Ogre which is a graphics renderer not a game engine

>>14029150

Signal Ops doesn't use Ogre, look it up.

>>14029179

Well shit. I remembered when I looked into the devs ages ago they mentioned building in ogre, but I must have miss-remembered.

>>14029069

I'm a dumbass who can't handle numbers to save my life. I slam straight into a wall anytime my code needs math more complex than addition/subtraction/division/multiplication.

>>14029448

download the teaching company DvD about algebra I, algebra II, trigonometry and calculus I.

It becames easier if you start from the basics and move up.

>>14027578

>Where the ship's center is

Thanks, this worked!

>>14026688

>>14027450

You're right, gotta keep that perfectionism in in check. As I said, it just works and it does so without any noticeable bugs, so I have no real reason to complain.

>>14028702

>for players it's unbelievably easy to lose track of how much health they've got

Is it really the case for a single-player shooter? I never had trouble with keeping the track of health aside from few rare moments when action got too fast.

My advice would be to make the red glow work similarly to the green healing glow - it should be a brief effect triggered by injuries suffered below certain health threshold. Your game doesn't have auto-regeneration, so If a player would be out of healing items he'd have no way to remove that effect until he finds something and it would become very annoying, very quickly. Plus I don't think people need a constant reminder that they're almost dead, just as they don't need a continuous green glow to know they're at good health.

>>14029569

bretty good.

I though it was a PS2 game for a second.

>>14029569

Looking good, but

>Keep you light burning strong

>>14030267

I know it depends on use and environment, but do you know of any good introductory texts to networking?

Stuff that conceptualizes it, explains it, different protocols and layouts, etc. In particular, I'm in C#, but anything is useful to know, I guess. Less code that I have to write to learn about it right now, the better

>>14030530

All I have been doing is reading through a couple of code examples that seem to be somewhat self-explanatory. This was the most useful example: http://www.binarytides.com/udp-socket-programming-in-winsock/

I'm using the WSAPI which, the way C# works is that everything in it is just a direct abstraction over win32, so you'll be using the same API, just in some kind of object model or something. Windows Sockets seem to have a lot in common with UNIX sockets, a lot of the functions look exactly the same.

TCP and UDP, since this isn't so low level, you can just use the API's to set up a TCP or UDP connection, and then that should be fine. You just "start" two sockets, and then the API's make it pretty easy to send data over it: It's just really simple functions like:

int sendto(
  _In_       SOCKET                s,
  _In_ const char                  *buf,
  _In_       int                   len,
  _In_       int                   flags,
  _In_       const struct sockaddr *to,
  _In_       int                   tolen
);

which should explain themselves, I want to send a data through a socket to an address. It's pretty conceptually similar to the idea of using a file descriptor to send and receive data with a file. I haven't actually looked at any sort of conceptual texts about networking, I have just been reading a few code samples.

>>14030849

I feel like your song is a diploma.jpg of music composing

>>14030877

i genuinely have no idea what i'm doing

>>14030849

>>14030882

I see you're making the soundtrack to one of those existentialist and surreal Thailand/Japanese movies.

>>14031059

Slap fur and a tail on that and you'll be making patreon bank in no time.

>>14031059

>Vagina bones

I laughed

>>14031082

That ain't happening. I want a comfy waifu VR sim first. I just accidentally let my dick take over the wheel for a couple days.

>>14031093

I didn't make any vagina bones. What are you laughing about?

>>14030849

>>14031018

Maybe you should keep going until music comes out.

Does OpenMPT allow you to play notes just by wailing on the keyboard, perhaps along to whatever you've already tracked? It can get pretty tricky to feel out what you're doing if it doesn't.

Redpill me on writing my own raycaster.

>>14032285

>falling for the raycasting meme

>>14032401

how do you get pseudo 3D with unity?

>>14032424

>making 3D games at all

pfft

>>14032474

*97.808219178%

I guess I'll remake this game on unity.

>>14032221

doing so wastes your effect slot, since unless you're right on the note, you add a delay effect.

on top of that, it'll only place notes on the current channel, which means if you play a chord, only one note is placed.

all of this effectively makes it useless

>>14032741

That wasn't really what I had in mind. I was referring to more of the ability to just fuck around and play whatever instrument is selected in polyphony while not recording. To sample and try out ideas. In something like, say, MilkyTracker, you can get however much polyphony you want to just sort of jam around, with or without previously material playing. If you've got jam channels enabled and high enough, whatever delays, echoes and effect you have going on won't interrupt each other, as each note's will be playing on its own channel.

You can record onto multiple tracks as well to capture polyphony, but which of the selected channels it's going to write to can get a bit messy.. It'll cycle through them in order for each note pressed. Works well enough, but you'll probably want to rearrange them later if you want, say, the higher voice in its own track and not strewn about.

Maybe give some other software a try. MilkyTracker's pretty good once you get used to it but the UI's certainly a product of an older generation of trackers. Tick some boxes in the I/O part of the config relating to multichannel and instrument playback things, take a look at some hotkeys and you're off to the races.

>>14032942

oh, you can do that in the instruments or samples tab.

>>14029569

>chose well

>?

>choose?

Fucking Unity. I was using animation preview on my player gameobject, but then during play when my script called gameobject.find to get a gameobject that was a child of the player during awake() it was getting the clone created during the animation preview, and then it was throwing a null reference exception because this clone didn't have the script I wanted.

The clone itself has a different name from the original, so you can't easily get the wrong object, but the children of the cloned object are also cloned but have the same name as the original. To make it worse this clone is never displayed on the hierarchy tab, but if you get the name of the parent of the child object you wanna find it will say something like "Parent_object_name_here (Clone) AnimationPreview". Made me waste a fucking half-hour thinking I was going mad.

>>14033026

so change the names or don't use gameobject.find, you dummy

Making even a turn based game with proper save/load is such an eye opener.

My entire gaming life is being replayed and I'm like oh that's why I despawn enemies in every modern fps by going through a checkpoint and reloading.

But also being really impressed by all the devs who didn't. Every game that allows me to save during action now gets a 20% boost in my mind.

>>14033048

You didn't understand, the animation tab on Unity has a preview option, it creates a clone of the object you are using to preview your animations on and adds the "object_name_here (Clone) AnimationPreview", changing the name does nothing, the object also never appears on the hierarchy tree so it's not like you can manually delete it, or even see it. It also clones the children of that object, but does not change the name of them. For some reason the preview was not clearing these objects fast enough so that when I pressed play and the awake() condition started these objects where still there and one of my scripts was getting it instead of the real one. This is completely on Unity, these clones should never appear during runtime.

>>14029622

Surprisingly, yes.

I've seen a lot of people on Twitch play earlier builds of my earlier projects, and when there was no obvious low-on-health indicator there were a lot of moments where people would not be paying attention to their health, die suddenly, and go "Wait what the fuck? What killed me?".

As soon as I added a low-on-health sound (for DemonSteele) or changed health text color (for High Noon Drifter), there was something instantly changed that they could notice, and the problem stopped.

I really hate the Bloody Screen So Real effect, but in terms of telling a player to pay attention, it's probably the most obvious. Having a lasting glow that fades away over time might also work, though, and it'd let me get away from that goddamned strawberry jam smeared all over the screen.

I'll experiment around with it, thank you.

>>14033980

>>14029622

I had the same criticism in one of my games (red sky) , I think that lots of games having these indicators have made people less able to just use the hud like normal.

>>14033213

you really shouldn't be animating in unity in the first place

>>14033213

it's best to assume anything relating to animation in unity is just broken. most things work, but the few things that don't are infuriating.

try to keep most of your asset creation outside of the program whenever possible.

>>14034151

>>14034356

I'm not animating on it, it's just the preview, you also have to use the animation tab to put events on it. Apparently it's not triggered by the animation tab preview too, it was just a coincidence. https://answers.unity.com/questions/1012246/findgameobjectswithtag-finds-an-object-that-doesnt.html this is exactly what was happening.

>>14034375

oh wow, that is fucked. I wonder if that affects built games or if that's just an editor bug.

GitHub's gamejam has ended:

https://github.com/blog/2483-game-off-2017-winners

>>14033159

learn about dictionaries

now don't quote me on that but it could be the reason many games use scripting languages for their characters. for example in godot, just scan for nodes in a group, then just store the transform, forces, and data in a dictionary (hell, i could use the same dictionary for gameplay), and parse it through (built in) json. then in reverse to load game.

>>14035428

Dictionaries aren't magic. They're just one of many ways to store a collection of objects. What would be more beneficial in this case is serialization

How good is SFML?

>>14035804

Pretty good, what do you need exactly ?

>>14035811

Remake SS13 in a year or two from now

>>14035813

Why not use the Godot engine ?

>>14035820

I always pictured engines as being tailored for simple games, or generic projects

>>14035828

Well, go for sfml then.

>>14036180

>clothes; do i sculpt them or not,

Either sculpt them or use Cloth simulation in Blender or Marevelous Designer. Could also do it in combination. You could also paint displacement/bump maps directly.

>how do it work with the topology

Copy parts of your body lowpoly basemesh that are directly below your clothing, and then cut off the parts that stick out, then get is as close to the highpoly clothing as you can for example with shrinkwrap modifier. If you do this after rigging your basemesh, you don't even have to re-rig much the clothing too

> anyone got a proportion sheet

Pinterest is filled with anatomy sheets, proportion stuff and real life examples.

Wonderful holidays to you too.

>>14036665

MMBN vibes, sort of

>>14036665

Sort of reminded me of Black Rock Shooter: The Game, although maybe it's not quite as similar as I thought it would be as I go back listen to it again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zR69wrzqpo&list=PLADDC01EC004022DE&index=1

Also sort of reminded me of some Yume Nikki music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GrzwtHfZxg

It might not be bad as an asethetic/menu/overworld map theme, although it doesn't have any sort of memorable melody that's going to keep it stuck in a listener's head.

>>14036180

I'm starting a modeling blog in a thread over on https://8ch.net/agdg/res/30078.html

1. I found it easiest to copy topology of the parts of the body it covers and then just extruded outward (soildify). That way it copies the topology and the weights so its perfect and wont ever clip with your body.

2. I'll be posting my folders of reference I found later

3. Idk

>>14036665

It feels very tense. Something bad is about to happen, but it isn't happening right now or if it is it's happening somewhere else. Point is there's no action, just tension.

>>14036752

If this is going to be a overworld theme it would need to be one during a race against the clock.

>>14032681

Food Fight is pretty good too.

>>14027808

that's not what you do. You learn things as you go, and when you need them. I've been modding games for years, and I'm currently developing my own FPS sandbox game - I still have no fucking idea how Trig works - I just look up how to get something I need, and if Trig is involved, I use it.

I'm not proud of my own ignorance, mind you. I should probably learn it. But my point is - you don't need to know it to use it to get the effect you need.

>>14028808

>why do people bother with 3D

Because 3D is fun.

>>14029448

Probably because you were intimidated by them as a child. Math is very simple, it's all about understanding it by heart, and that's done by explaining things properly.

>>14031059

That actually looks extraordinarily good. You got that puffiness just right.

>>14036845

https://sketchfab.com/tags/low-poly

>>14038002

Weapon bobbing is tricky to get right, too slow and it feels like it's not moving right, too fast and it looks weird

Also don't forget the weapon moving more into the view if you're looking down, and less into view if you're looking up

good shit though

>>14038073

Thanks anon, i had your idea in mind too to make sure the weapon bloats the view as less as possible.

>>14037649

that isn't low poly, thats just a chunky simple style, low poly objects without textures are just very simple shapes with no definition, low poly art is all in the textures

>>14036845

https://mega.nz/#!ouhGXQiZ!Uz7Oe2qY_PQTqbrd0OoZ9ostDqMDvhaawIKD60f3lro has a whole bunch of low poly examples.

>>14038172

>relatively low poly count as a stylistic choice is different to relatively low poly count

I'm alright with the distinction, but if the lad was asking for "nu-low poly" these are the closest examples I know for actual games and not artists wasting time.

>>14038181

>nsfw underage dolphins

You sick fuck.

Nice references, quite a few duplicates in there though.

>>14029150

>furfag RPG where you could rape everything

Please tell me this isn't real.

>>14032474

Making 3d models is fucking hard dude. Sprites on the other hand can be made in fucking paint.net if you're desperate enough.

>>14038342

>Making 3d models is fucking hard dude. Sprites on the other hand can be made in fucking paint.net if you're desperate enough.

Correction, making good 3D models is fucking hard. But the same is true for making good sprites. And making a lot of animations with good sprites is way more work and harder than making a lot of animations with a 3D model.

>>14039056

Did the robot turn into a giant piece of shit?

>>14039386

I know the animation tree is coming for me, i'm quite impressed by it, and have no clue how it works. Thanks for the ressources, i'll study them tomorrow.

>>14039056

Look up "world space texture shader".

>>14039056

Some animations like the walk, run, 180turn and climb I use root motion, others like the fall and jumps I use simple gravity and speed accelerations. I made it this way so I can create things like a feather fall potion or a long jump potion.

>>14036845

>640x480

While I like the old games, I feel like dying if a game doesn't have widescreen support. What's a good resolution to use?

I like the idea of having a square or semi-square playing field, with a sidebar taking up the rest of the area. What I've done on my own game, for example, is is have a 320x320 grid at 32x32, then upscale it 2x, finally centering it and slapping UI on it

>>14040753

>While I like the old games, I feel like dying if a game doesn't have widescreen support. What's a good resolution to use?

I use 640x360 for my pixelshit. A slightly bigger window would then be 854x480.

>>14040753

I'm not sure. I too have taken note that having a square work space is 10x as comfy as having a wide screen. Everything is just in the center of focus. At the same time though no one will ever go for it because having widescreen is more convenient to work with because you have more to see at once. Some screens are so wide now that you would need to literally cut the screen in half to get the desired effect. It also acts as a feedback loop. UIs can have so much detail that it's hard to make them bulky, meaning more space is available, meaning it's harder to cover half the screen.

Well, fuck

>Use XNA because it's all I really know

>Except its content pipeline is retarded and impossible for ease of modding, so I just directly load the content myself

>Can't use half the features such as Sound Cues and other shit

>XNA is grossly deprecated, and in addition uses fucking Windows Media Player to play back sounds, and short, rapid playing pops and sounds awful in general

>Monogame didn't work for me for some reason

>FNA downloads and won't fucking build, and I have no idea what I'm doing with dependencies (I hit F6 and it immediately fails silently)

>Some other open implementation of XNA needed an updated version of VS C# Edition, which I don't have a license for and I'm too lazy to pirate it or find a key and download

>Unity and GameMaker are not appropriate for my game, too lazy to learn Godot

>SFML looks nice, but it feels too differently to easily understand at a glance, and I'd also have to implement timing loops, etc myself

>>14040926

http://nehe.gamedev.net/

OpenGL!

>>14040887

The #ifdefs are actually defined? Write up a minimum working example of using the mutexes to ensure you're using them correctly.

>>14040926

>>Monogame didn't work for me for some reason

Are you using Linux? Right now MonoGame is bitch to install on it since MonoDevelop decided to use flatpak and MonoGame doesn't seem to want to make the switch.

>>14040926

Just fuck around with Unity and GameMaker for a few days each to see if they actually aren't suited.

>>14040948

It's just like SFML but more barebones

>>14041502

nuDoom uses OpenGL 4.x and Vulkan. AAA devs don't ignore it because it's incapable, they ignore it because they aren't familiar with it.

>>14040926

GLFW, create OpenGL context, go to town. Build off of the demo programs that come distributed with it. Cmake to build, so not all that hard once you have the compiler installed. About that…

I actually recommend nuwen.net/mingw.html distribution. Get a 64bit mingw system with pre-compiled SDL, zlib, ogg/vorbis, libpng, jpg, GLM, glbinding.

From their, start adding things like Bullet3D, LuaJIT, whatever else you feel like exploring.

>>14041626

I just had trouble installing dependencies, why the fuck do you think I would be better off with a C compiler? And why is every C compiler I can find like a 250 mb download? I thought it was supposed to be lightweight. No im sticking with C#

>>14041625

I would say at this point, a majority of games are using OpenGL (and GLSL shader code) for rendering. It's just not talked about much. Most people are using an engine, any many of those are using OpenGL. Why? Because it's cross-platform. Engines want to easily allow released on consoles, Linux, Mac, and Windows. OpenGL allows this. Modern OpenGL is essentially bindless and stateless. The worst thing about OpenGL is all of the legacy BS around the web. Most tutorials teach outdated OpenGL, or outdated methods.

>>14041640

You really should be using gamemaker or unity.

>>14041654

100% great fucking advice. I'm glad it's working for you. I myself have fallen into the traps you describe. The notes are a good idea. It's easy to forget these simple facts at first and fall into familiar, negative modes of thought.

>>14041669

Inability to recognize mood patterns is what really hurt my teenage years. Both academia and shit like drawing and animation I'd be much better at if I knew how to handle my brain's tard wrath back then. These self-control methods have reduced my downtime significantly. I've been doing a lot, a lot more work lately and it feels great, even when I'm feeling down.

Also eat breakfast, drink tea or coffee in the morning and at least three cups of water before and after you wake up. Your body is a machine, and unless you're fed and hydrated, it pulls blood away from your brain to power your body to get sustenance. The difference is staggering once you really start doing these healthy things. I used to roll my eyes at that, as though it's placebo - but honestly, it's amazing. I even perform better in vidya that require attention and reaction time.

>>14041625

I was talking about the type of OpenGL that my link teaches, which was used in the 90s mostly, and what was AAA in the 90s. Fixed function OpenGL is great.

>>14041640

>why is every C compiler I can find a 250 MB download?

What compilers have you found that go over 250 MB? You've probably just been downloading software suites that have a bunch of bloat in them.

I can show you a few C compilers that are small:

https://bellard.org/tcc/ - Tiny C Compiler - 274K

http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm - Pelle's C Compiler - 9.6M

http://openwatcom.org/ - Open Watcom C/C++ - 80M

I Would recommend Pelles C since that is the best software here, the others are hard to use.

>>14041828

Great for making retro vidya and toaster-friendly stuff, but OpenGL 3+ can be a lot faster on DX10-tier hardware and up. Unless you're working on an actual low-poly game anything earlier than OpenGL 2 is bending over backwards to support an API for ancient hardware that probably won't run your game anyways.

>>14042014

>Unless you're working on an actual low-poly game anything earlier than OpenGL 2 is bending over backwards to support an API for ancient hardware that probably won't run your game anyways.

All of my thinkpads have GPU's that do not support newer OpenGL standards. So, it's just a necessity for me that they support those older API's. Otherwise, I can only develop on my desktop- and that hurts my productivity. I think that it's actually not that big of a deal to support them, since its a much simpler and easier to use system than any new API, so the code is much quicker to write. I also like using the older computers as an optimization target, to make sure that my engine isn't running like shit and hasn't broken compatibility with windows XP. I am making an actual low poly game, but to make sure that its a "real" low poly game, it should at least be able to run on a Pentium M and Radeon Mobility 9000…

>>14042040

You're sure your Thinkpads don't support OpenGL 2.x? Your points are valid otherwise.

I asked in /agdg/, but I might as well ask it here.

How do I into python?

I am doing it on code academy at the moment but I feel as if I am bruteforcing the exercises. Is this something that I have to work towards? Or is programming really just an exercise in bullshit?

>>14042172

Sometimes it can be, but when you're starting out it shouldn't be bullshit and you shouldn't be bruteforcing solutions. You aren't expected to solve every problem on your first go at it especially when you're just starting out, and experimenting with possible solutions to see what works is an ever-present part of programming.

Maybe if you give an example of what you're doing and how you are doing it I can give better advice.

>>14041646

Not to mention most consoles use OpenGL. Aside from the xbone.

do sicp you retards

Alright /agdg/. I'm about to make my new year's resolution.

THIS YEAR I AM GOING TO START MAKING MY GAME!

I AM GOING TO FINISH MY ENGINE BY THE END OF NEXT YEAR AND BEYOND THAT FUCKING FINISHING IT!

BY THE POWER OF SHITPOSTING, THREE MINUTE NOODLES AND A FUCK TON OF ASPIRATION I WILL FUCKING DO IT!

>>14042339

i understand where you're coming from, and i agree that you should channel your negative energy into positive output. that being said, van gogh was aun untalented hack, as were the rest of the modernist/abstract/postmodernist/cubist/dadaist socalled 'artists'. shit, the lot of them. gl on your game tho :D

>>14042524

Why start next year?

Start this week.

>>14042233

a = 0b1110
b = 0b101
print a|b without using bitwise operators

https://glot.io/snippets/ewqkxic6gw

That is as far as I've gotten.

please no bully

>>14042233

>>14042833

>Maybe if you give an example of what you're doing and how you are doing it I can give better advice.

Again, this is really brute-force-y, but what I was doing was;

1. Converting a and b into a list

2. Removing 0 and b from a and b

3. Reversing the order of a and b

4. Comparing if the xth bit in a or the xth bit in b is 1, adding it to c if it is, 0 if false

5. Converting c back to binary by reversing and adding 0, b to the end

6. Converting the list of c back to bits

I am unable to get past step 4, lst.popleft() should do the trick, but it doesn't work. Still reading up how to's.

>>14042833

>>14042852

>>14042951

https://glot.io/snippets/ewqnh5aa4m

Things to note: Binary is a representation of powers of two, same as octal is a representation of powers of eight, decimal is powers of ten, hexadecimal is powers of sixteen. We call the power of the representation the base. To extract the least significant digit of a representation, take the modulus of the base ie to get the 9 out of 1239, do 1239 % 10. Now we need to remove the least significant digit from the number. Do this by dividing the number by the base and discarding the fractional component. 1239 // 10 gives us 123. Store the number extracted via modulus in a string for display and then reverse the string since we put everything in least significant first.

https://glot.io/snippets/ewqnsvow6m

Another implementation that doesn't bitwise or the number before printing it out. Uses the same logic as above and then uses logical or to check the extracted numbers.

>>14042833

If this is how you are practicing programming, you are making a huge mistake. What the fuck kind of problem is that. "Do this very simple thing in the most obtuse, roundabout way possible." Do you want to be training your brain to come up with crazy multi-line solutions for something that is a single operator? What good does accomplishing this do? Find exercises that are actually practical, or better yet, start doing real programming.

>>14043458

I was following code academy, on the section on bitwise operators, they suggested I try it without using the operators.

The exercise was literally typing print (a|b) into the console

Where can I go to start doing real programming? I've tried project euler but the problems scaled way too fast.

>>14042965

That's way over my head, but it works, thanks for that. I'll try to understand it.

>>14043470

Find something you want to make, get an engine and try to make it.

Read the docs, google and research stuff that you need to know as you go along. OR you could buy a 500 pages book, read through it, and only then actually start making stuff. I don't think that shit works, but it depends from person to person.

>>14043470

Do SICP. Then just find something you want to make and then make it.

I'll just leave this here

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html

>>14042866

use sprites that soft blend around the edges

>>14043470

https://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/

>>14043609

No I mean as far as how to position and set them so they don't look weird, I'm having trouble with the different shapes I can use to create them

how does texture animation work in Unity?

I'm a modeler and I can't code for shit

For example, what I want to do ideally is to split the eyes and mouth of the face mesh and be able to swap them in an animation.

I think I'm suppose to create 1 texture map for the eye and mouth mesh, and having different expressions on that one map.

what I'm asking overall is what I should prepare for the programmer.

also merry xmas and i wish for everyone

>>14043481

Long term goal > Video games

mid term goal > machine learning

short term goal > python

>>14043496

>>14043544

Thanks. That's a buttload of text, do they really help?

>>14043609

Thanks. I'll give the easy ones a shot.

>>14043937

>short term goal > python

Why?

>mid term goal > machine learning

Why?

>Long term goal > Video games

Neither python nor machine learning have anything to do with games

This isn't the right place to ask for that, go on /g/ or /tech/

>>14043937

>Do they really help

It's something to consider if you need to make a super low level efficient system. It'll be fine without it.

in godot, i have two objects (yaw and pitch) that in conjunction need to look to another

>>14044332

What I would do, and I'm saying this without knowing the engine you're using or what exactly you want to do, is create one image that has every single variation of the texture you want

>open mouth, closed mouth, smiling, sad, etc

Then the coder can just change the X/Y position of the texture to swap between the different images.

>>14044311

Don't over design him. He looks fine the way he is.

Although if you're going for a cowboy look, give his boots some spurs.

>>14044555

He used to travel by foot, also spurs make it hard to sneak by goblin hordes due to the noise

Merry Christmas, everybody!

I succumbed to temptation, I'm taking the day off. I'll get back to working on stuff tomorrow.

>>14044813

The one thing that's keeping me from doing an RPG is how to have persistent areas, as well as querying arbitrary game variables via scripting to see if dialog options appear, etc

>>14044825

I've got some of that done but it's total spaghetti code

>>14044825

There's multiple ways RPGs tend to do persistent areas. You can set progression variables and then on the world map decide to send the player to a different version of a town map, which works especially well if you need big changes like a town burning down. Otherwise you just add variable checks to actors themselves, for instance if you talked to Dude A and he walked away to some desert to find loot you set DudeALeft to true and check if that's false before spawning him.

Sure it requires a bunch of manual planning and adding variables, but it beats having to serialize entire maps.

>querying arbitrary game variables via scripting to see if dialog options appear

Just like use debugger?

>>14045331

pretty sure for that, you could move the pincers in the boss object. so, in the boss object's step event, move both it and the pincers. they'll all move at once, then.

>>14045331

Use End Step to move objects before they are drawn.

IIRC the order for relevant events for everything every frame is

Begin Step

(Built-in input events)

Step

(Application of built in movement)

End Step

Draw

>>14044938

I mean shit like using Lua to query say, C# variables that may or may not exist on an object

>serializing a map

Not too hard. If you set up your map data correctly, the tiles should call for only a few a bytes of data each. You might have a few local map variables/states to hold onto; and maybe simple object and actor states.

Its obviously much harder if you have eg Minecraft terrain

>>14045404

You can do that with C# itself, there's this nifty thing most modern languages have called reflection…

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.reflection(v=vs.110).aspx

In C# you can query any type for fields/properties/methods/constructors/indexers that may or may not exist, all at runtime.

>>14045404

>>14045437

Actually you probably want to refer to the methods on the Type type

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.type(v=vs.110).aspx

Important ones are GetProperty/GetMethod/GetField

Heres a good set of examples of how they are used

https://www.dotnetperls.com/reflection

It would be pretty easy to use reflection to write a very simple game scripting language on top of C#

>>14043470

I was gonna write out a little thing for you, but this website does it better.

http://www.purplemath.com/modules/numbbase.htm

>>14045404

> Its obviously much harder if you have eg Minecraft terrain

It's not that hard. MC stores the changes to the map along with some information like the seed. When you load the game, the seed is used to generate the map in its initial state. After that the changes are applied. That's the reason why savegames in MC get bigger over time.

>>14045641

Why is he such a fan of shitty languages?

>>14046312

Is this a technical "how is this even done" or a general "what's the best way to structure this"?

>>14046335

If you don't mind, Both please.

>>14046364

I can't answer the second since I've never actually done it. But generally if you want to do network programming in C, you have to use the socket functionality of whatever OS you're programming for. In Windows that'd be winsock.h, in Linux it's sys/socket.h I think. I'd suggest reading up on that so you get an idea of how to actually send data over the network.

Implementing the actual server/client structure of your engine could probably be done in many different ways depending on the exact type of game it's for. If you're too afraid to get experimental though, you can always study the tried and true methods in something like the Quake 3 source code.

>>14046312

I'm working on this right now, with winsock on windows and soon-to-be POSIX sockets on Linux version. Windows is basically using POSIX sockets since its API is very consistent with the POSIX API, so I doubt porting it will be a big deal.

I have been sending simple messages so far, there is one client that the server is aware of and the server can receive and respond to some basic messages, for example a "say" message that, when the server receives it, it will echo to all of its clients (which is just one right now).

See my previous post: >>14030267

>>14046571

the butt slap is too noticeable, but not worth redoing just for that. but there are more important questions.

1) is your gun zeroed? this is really important, more if you are doing fps or want the npcs using them

2) can it be played in game?

many engines have limitations on how you can setup animations starting gun first can lead to serious problems. also the gun itself its the least important part, the juice is in the hands.

3) are you supposed to put this much effort in this stage?

projects fall all the time and there is no point in pouring your soul if you are bellow the minimum viable product, even if you lie to yourself that it is for your portfolio, portfolios are worth nothing and nobody sees them.

>>14046878

1) that your animations can look where you tell it through simple commands. a problem that i'm facing right now

2)and have you tested that it actually works? what about simple modifications/updates? you might think that it is not a big deal when doing just one animation but that time and testing will eat you once you start expanding your library.

I went through great trouble to make a work flow for my animator to export once and sit back. that way he can spit out animations and test without breaking anything

3)i do not know what stage are you in, but if you still need a proof of concept be sure that it actually proves your concept first. this means placeholders only, spaghetti code, and tackling the most unique parts of your project first, whether it is multiple weapons, swappable characters or a mix of turn based system with parkour shooting, you need to be sure they can be achieved with your current team and tools. anything beyond that is wasted effort, and you are better off working on other projects on the side until your team catches on.

>>14042339

>[spoiler]

>>14046571

Now on topic I really like it. It's expressive animation. It's got flair.

>>14046312

Not sure if this will be specific enough to help anon, but in the past I've handled it like this:

>Client sends input changes to the server when changes occurred but capped to a maximum number per second (if viable for the type of game you're making)

>Depending on latency you may want to have the client pretend to use its input directly client-side and then get corrected by the server

<Server checks and normalizes the input then uses it to determine velocities (per sec) and actions then informs clients of state changes at a fixed rate

>Clients apply and interpolate changes as needed to smooth out movements

But a lot of the nitty gritty depends on the type of game. A fighting game needs to focus on lowest latency and you wouldn't want to fake local input while an open world shooter can be more sparing with updates until players are within a certain proximity of each other. In general I'd recommend you push a lot of updates and state changes initially and then optimize them around the type of gameplay you need to handle.

>>14047595

Thanks, anon

How do I make shadows in Unity? So far for dynamic objects I only got shadows to show with spot and point lights, but they look like shit for a sun, directional lights simply do not produce shadows. I have been messing with the mixed lightning and managed to bake shadows for static objects, with the light probe group I can make the dynamic objects receive shadows, but they never cast any shadow.

Mixed Indirect mode produces no shadows for either the dynamic or static objects, Shadowmask mode produces shadows on static object, but Distance Shadowmask produces no shadow if the shadow distance is high. Didn't even try subtractive because I didn't think it would be worth it.

I have been trying combinations of forward rendering or deferred, changing random settings but not even realtime GI produces shadows for dynamic objects. I'm completely lost and don't know what else to do, I tried to copy the settings on the video but nothing works, since the mixed lightning is a recent thing I haven't even been able to find proper tutorials on this.

>>14048762

did you check your shadow distance? quality is usually the problem for this

>>14046312

Just like make netcode.

First thing you need is a protocol for sending the information between servers and clients. The protocol and the code handling it are probably the most important piece to get right up front. Decide where one message ends and another one begins, and how the computer knows this. Decide if/how you want encryption done. Decide how messages are received/stored/handled. Etc.

Suggested thing: Multithread the netcode. Having multithreaded code is good, but a pain to get right. You won't want to stall the rest of your game. It's easier to avoid doing multi threaded code if you have lower level control over the sockets. You also want to do this early, since it will can be a big change to the structure of your netcode.

Next thing: RPCs (Remote Procedure Calls)- Have a layer that allows client/server to pass messages and call functions on eachother. Lowest level thing you can do which gives you the ability to basically do anything you want. Consider using information about the source of the RPC (what client sent it) as information the RPCs themselves use, which could be used to prevent any player from faking messages to move objects they don't control, for example.

You will definitely want a set of RPCs that sync data between client and server, with the server sending deltas (only what changed between ticks) to connected clients every tick. You don't want to send actual delta positions, but new information about objects, if it changed (can send both position and velocity of an object)

After that, it is easy to write any system you want in the game as a collection of RPCs and shared data. Entities, chat, inventories, etc. Just structure any player action as an RPC.

I've been writing a custom netcode system in Unity, using C#4.6 Tasks to "multithread" it. So far it's turning out pretty well, hardest part was getting the tasks to play nicely with Unity's main thread and play/pause/stop state. Thankfully pretty much all tasks end up getting killed every time scripts recompile.

>>14048762

Well FUCK ME. I had set the camera far plane to something like 10 million and I discovered that setting it to more than 2 million fucks up the shadows.

>>14048993

pretty not fucking bad i like it

>>14048993

I've implemented it in my side project remaking Hidden: Source a while ago. It's not hard to implement, but it's a tad difficult to figure out how to slow down the speed gain.

>>14049014

>What did you expect setting the clipping plane that far away?

I was messing around with it sometime ago and forgot to set it back to normal levels

>>14048993

Yo this looks rad as fuck.

>>14045641

>Creates formula that creates much more complex world than Minecraft and at much higher performance

>Will never use it

This shit is why video games have stagnated

>>14049017

>Remaking The Hidden: Source

My melanin enriched brethren

>>14049148

i don't use unity but i do this, then shape key the fuck out of it (anim-all add on might be involved)

>>14049224

for clothing i use this other and also shape key the fuck out of it too.

it takes age to render so i made a computer out of old components and leave it running overnight/a few days.

keep in mind that for it to work properly your humans need to be like 10 times bigger there is probably a setting to change scale somewhere else

>>14049255

>>14049224

thanks i will check it

Games usually avoid realistic violence against children, but is it just because they want to avoid controversy or is there actually some law about it? I don't want to get in trouble.

>>14049152

Notch is shit at game design. He just likes making little toys. He could make another game based on randomly generated cubes but it would still be a shit game even if the cubes were generated better.

polite off-topic sage

>>14049301

don't forget your hair also don't learn everything just because you can, pick one or two things and learn them good, then participate in other people's projects

>>14049279

depends where you live

>>14049308

Well I'm Canadian so I already know I can't have any child diddling, but I want to sell my game in the US and Europe too

>>14049313

Trudeau will probably kick down your door. Come down south and enjoy some freedom.

>>14049313

Honestly, I wouldn't bother. That sort of shit sounds like it's a recipe for the wrong kind of controversy. Then again, I don't know what you're working on.

>>14049324

>voxlap

Reminds me of Ace of Spades.

>>14049333

I don't have enough money to immigrate… and when I do I'd rather go to Japan

>>14049334

If it's just a controversy I don't mind, since the rest of the game is controversial anyway, so I figured I might as well go all out. I'm just wondering on the legality.

>>14049345

>rather go to Japan

You DO know porn needs to be censored there, right? Just saying.

>>14049334

That's because ace of spades is using Voxlap as it's engine. See: https://www.buildandshoot.com/download/

>Voxlap is the original engine used for Ace of Spades up through v0.76. If you played the game during the early beta stages, this is what you're looking for.

>>14049352

I just don't see why you'd trade one type of authoritarianism for another. I guess it's just the way of the leaf to be a bootlicker.

crazy bump but free and for linux

>>14049345

Whether I want to deal with a controversy very much depends on what the controversy is about. Anyway, you will have the rating agencies of all countries breathe down your neck. Since they don't all subscribe to the same universal book of rules and have a tendency to be quite arbitrary (at least here in Germany), it means that you will have to fight a lot of fights.

>>14049354

I knew that, Anon. It still hurts how badly the dev got fucked over.

>>14049545

if you are doing caves in blender don't go sculpt head first, use the boolean modifier to chain entrances and chambers together then sculpt that. also don't overdo the sculpting, most of the detail should be done painting https://cloud.blender.org/p/creature-factory-2/56041520044a2a00caa7b06c

also enable the tree generating add on.

also learn about duplifaces, dupliverts and groups. it will save you lots of time when you are trying to place 9000 trees/lam posts/houses at once

>>14049545

If you're going with a photorealistic look, turning your terrain into a normal mesh is a really bad idea. Texturing and LOD are going to be a royal pain in the ass. It doesn't surprise me that Unity's built-in terrain system doesn't support holes. People have been asking for it for ages. You'd need a third party solution or do it yourself. I don't know if there are any tutorials.

>>14049545

i think you'd have an easier time just using unity for most of the terrain, converting it to a mesh and then adding caves in blender

there were alternatives like rendering caves over the terrain, but i never managed to get that to work, and i'm even more confused how you'd work out collision that way

>>14049592

Like >>14049545 said, using meshes only is likely to be a royal pain in the ass. You might want to look into implementing something like MarchingCubes so you can just edit it in the engine. There's some hits when you type in "Unity Marching cubes" so you might not even have to implement it yourself, or only have to change it a little to add in-editor editing.

>>14049651

Heh, I used to have a teacher who programmed like that. He also wrote a raytracer that fit on a business card.

>>14049661

I just wish I could read it, but between the two letter variables and the walls of SIMD assembly I cant.

Anyway I have been working in my mouse input, I implemented mouse input using the raw input API's, I also will implement it using directinput as well, I think that will be enough for windows. I don't really have a reason to implement the directinput method yet because all of my windows NT computers support raw input, though. I don't have pre-NT windows versions installed anywhere.

Isn't Ken Silverman a Jew?

>>14049779

But I guess he's not a *prime* jew since his name is only Silverman instead of Goldman, right?

>>14049785

Exactly, that's why he actually produces things instead of jewing goys.

>>14049706

I could probably translate and comment it a little, might do it if I feel like being not lazy.

>>14049785

God dammit anon give me my sides back.

>>14049794

I've met plenty of really stereotypical jews, but all the autistic ones I've seen have been really unkike-y. We should ask China how they made those monkeys autistic and force it upon the jews.

>>14049815

It's not so horrible, its just that I dont know assembly that well and translating that code would take a while before I could understand it. The engine is 12000 lines of that, so it's really not going to be easy.

is it feasible for me to write a 3d game in C, rather than C++?

I'm rather hesitant to learn C++ solely to make a game, especially if I can do it in C instead.

>>14050123

Ika is writing his second 3D C engine as we speak. It's uncommon these days but still doable.

>>14050123

All the Id engines until Doom 3 were written in C. Yeah it's possible, but

>>14050170

Whoops I fucked that up. It's possible, but I can't imagine going back to C personally.

>>14050123

Personally I'm taking an approach of C-with-classes, in other words the only C++ feature I use is (non-template) classes (so no STL, no template classes, no 'auto', yes some 'new' and 'delete' statements for class pointers).

I think this C-with-classes approach works out really well, but if even C++ classes leave a sour taste in your mouth, there's nothing wrong with a 100% C approach.

It's worth noting that Ocarina of Time was written in C.

make a video game about space ship to space ship boarding

>>14050123

Totally doable. I don't think that using C++ will help you write your game faster (although I don't know- the last time I wrote C++ was in 2014…) than it would be if you just used C.

There are tons of old engines that are written in C as well. You could write your own engine, or use someone's engine, or upgrade someone's engine to support features you want.

>>14049582

>>14049592

>>14049600

>>14049655

Nice, thanks anons. I haven't really decided on an art style yet, I'm a programmer, not an artist so that will take a while for me to decide on something. I'm leaning more to the simplistic/clean design with vibrant colors but not low-poly. For now I'm just gonna continue working on low-detail stuff and later I will make the decision, perhaps with the environment modeled it becomes easier to test out different styles.

>>14050189

>It's worth noting that Ocarina of Time was written in C.

And then compiled into assembly for the console.

>>14050657

you do realize you could make much more money if it was just average 3D porn and stay safe from jail?

>>14050680

Only leaves get jailed for polygons.

>>14050680

I'm not doing it for money. I do my thing for fun.

>>14050684

>>14050687

why pedo shit?

sure, I can see the appeal.

but unless you jack off to loli shit I don't see the appeal, and fapping off your own I just can't do it.

loli is ok when is rule 34 I think.

>>14050702

>sure, I can see the appeal

>but unless you jack off to loli shit I don't see the appeal

Do you have any clue what you just said? 'Cause I sure don't.

>>14050531

C is compilable to pretty much any CPU Instruction Set's assembly. What is your point?

>>14050737

well, if you're into girls that are younger than you, at some point you'll hit pedo shit when you're a teenager.

>>14050702

Anon that made no sense. Again, I'm doing it for fun. I don't live in a shithole anti-loli state and the appeal of my sim is 100% for my tastes.

>>14050796

post screenshot of your 3D loli.

>>14050818

>16-8=6

wow

>>14050827

> The location of those tits.

>>14050852

Oh yeah that's an old shirt. I redid the tits you can see my progress thread here: https://8ch.net/agdg/res/30078.html

>>14050827

Hey it's Shinobufag. Have you impregnated your loli waifu yet?

>>14050364

Texturing will be a huge pain in the ass. Collisions, too, because you can't just take the terrain mesh and use it as collision mesh. Collision meshes have to be convex so good luck with holes that lead into caves.

Texture blending will require you to write a custom, layered shader unless you want to draw every single texture variation into its own texture maps, which will take forever and run like ass. And you will need blending unless your terrain uses very simple materials. Basically, if you want to use more than one texture per mesh. Shit like the Spyro terrain other Anons posted works fine, but if you want more than that…

>>14050819

Ok.

>>14050906

So what is the whole project about? Is it just to have a private little virtual world with you and your waifu?

>>14050955

>>14050923

>>14050819

>>14050818

>>14050790

>>14050728

>>14050702

Hey y'all niggers need to focus on gamedev, this shit's too off topic

>>14050941

Pretty much. Ideally I'd like a sim where I can just put my headset on after coming from work and see her smile and play small games with her that give me credits to buy her cute clothes. Kind of like an interactive Steam VR Home world. Sex is not supposed to be a focus but I mean she's too beautiful to miss out on having missionary while handholding.

>>14050955

>Daily

where were you yesterday

>>14050973

I gotta say, that sounds pretty damn comfy. If I ever met you in the real world, though, I'd buy you a good beverage of your choice for your consumption tbh.

>>14050979

This.

>>14050974

>Gay unnatural shit.

>Same as women with nice tits and ass.

Epic argument dude.

>>14050979

>Implying.

>>14050955

Even you have to acknowledge that if the blonde in >>14050923 had any larger tits, they'd look like she stole them from an orangutan, or Michelle Obama.

>>14050964

I'm talking about anatomy and art. That's tangentially related to game dev. Games need aesthetic characters.

>>14050990

>Games need aesthetic characters.

Ever play Pong?

>>14050996

Not much anymore. It's boring as shit. Now, if it had more porn, that'd be another thing.

>>14050964

You're free to post progress whenever you want.

>>14051011

>he never played strip pong

>>14051022

>It wasn't even the first game though, fags.

That's the point. People kept playing those games despite no super appealing characters in it. Because it was fun.

>>14051059

So you're telling me if Minecraft would've had a round aesthetic rather than a blocky one it wouldn't have sold millions because of its gameplay?

>>14051080

I know that's a rhetorical question, but yeah probably. The blocky aesthetic helped its "simplicity" vibe, causing it to surge in popularity with autists (see: Wurm not doing as great).

Also Minecraft has TERRIBLE gameplay.

>>14051104

>Also Minecraft has TERRIBLE gameplay.

That may be so today, but it could draw you in for hours and hours even after you've seen all there was to see aesthetic and environmental wise.

Personally I'd say rather than a game needing aesthetics or aesthetic characters I'd go with "it can only benefit" from having them when done right.

And to me done right is when it doesn't interfere with the gameplay but rather supports it.

I think that Persona 5 is a great example for that.

The style has changed quite a bit over the years.

The aesthetics have become a bonus, a cherry on top and because they're done so well they make you forget that you're just playing another persona where you go around collecting personas to kick ass.

tl;dr:

The gameplay is there to have fun with while aesthetics take care of the atmosphere and emotions.

They are no must but depending on the game they become invaluable assets.

How is Gamemaker Studio 2? I'm familiar with Gamemaker from years ago but not at all with Studio 2. How is it?

>>14053593

I have seen my artist do it, so I know it's definitely possible.

Wouldn't know how tho

>>14053603

could you ask him for a link or at least a search term to look for a guide? i have been trying anything from multiple armatures to nested armatures, cloth rigs, etc… and i can't find something that explains how to do this

>>14053636

Yes, but in my case i cannot do that, as i would have many unused bones on each model if i did that.

I need to make it so the bones will only be there if certain cloth/hair mesh is present

>>14053636

and now I feel dumb because I reread

>>14053593

The only way to do what you want is to do each item as a separate model, and have a separate renderer for each, unless you want to write something that will combine the skeletons

Customizable characters are really hard to do correctly, especially if you want clothes to be included in the customization.

Also let me clarify for >>14052612

They made a mistake using HTML5 for the editor, and it sucks. The only good thing about any changes they made was that now projects play nicely with source control, but they screwed almost everything else up.

>>14053654

I talked to my bro, we decided to make like you said, each moving part will be a separated model, and he will make sure the model is attached to a bone on the main rig when you equip it in Unity

Like a hair model will be attached to the head bone, even though it will not be rigged to it through skinning

>>14053651

What I like to do is just temporarily combine the hair skeleton with the body skeleton and animate. Then when it's good I disconnect it from it and keep it as its own skeleton.

>>14053708

That's probably the best solution, and for simplicity's sake, try to keep every customization down to a single model, attached to whatever bone you want on the character model. Each thing can be rigged/animated separately.

There's also the question of how to animate it-

The mechanim system makes it hard to duplicate the state of animators, and you'll need a lot of animators that are sync'd up. The legacy system is much better suited to this, since you can just play animations by name at the same time on every animator in some list.

With mechanim you may need to have 'uber animations'/controllers placed on every single animated item, and pump the same parameters into everything. I could see doing it that way become a nightmare.

>>14053710

We can also try that, i will search how its done

>>14053769

Im not sure how it will be animated, but my bro understands this part better, i think he will be using mecanim for the main rig and something else for the other parts

>>14054202

>Java

But I see Linked Lists, so you're starting with fundamentals at least

>>14054202

Quick! Stop using Eclipse! Anythings better- Switch to IntelliJ or even fucking Netbeans would be an improvement.

New thread when :^)

>>14054416

page 13

PROGRESS.

>>14055474

some places dont allow webms

>>14055502

Okay? Good thing this isn't one of them.

>>14055474

I usually webm if possible since it's more convenient than stuffing my jewtube channel full of shit nothing-progress, but a 10 minute video in 16mb ends up being mediocre quality, so if I make a bigger update or something, I tend to jewtube it.

>>14055424

Wouldn't it make more sense for the values to be inside the boxes, and the indexes to be outside?

Also STOP USING ECLIPSE NOW AND FIND A BETTER IDE. Trust me. You'll be switching away from it soon enough anyway.

>>14055424

why are you using Java? that language will just impede your thinking

>>14055171

I think he was half shitposting to prove a point

>>14056701

why not just use the total elapsed time instead of ticking a bunch of timers that could end up drifting?

something like

int frame = ((int)(Game.time / rate)) % numFrames;

at the site where you need to determine what frame to display, with rate/numFrames being determined on a per-tile basis?

>>14056814

>timers that could end up drifting

What, like getting inaccurate over time? My timers shouldn't do that, since floats are accurate with whole numbers, and they'll automatically update and reset very predictably.

My maps are 16,000 tiles in size (though I'm only drawing about 160 tiles in total each frame). This is how my Sprite class looks (in particular the GetFrame method will accept a GetPercent() value from a timer)

https://hastebin.com/fopujaxihe.cs